With any war history movie you have to start with the history of it first and only then the movie quality itself, and this is especially important for this movie. The movie is about a functional 28 solders of Panfilov 316th Rifle Division who took part in the defense of Moscow during World War II. The story is about a group of solders (28 solders) that stood to their death to defend one of the roads leading to Moscow. This story was Soviet version of 300 Spartans, ironically enough one of the solders of in the movie does talk about this historical fact in the movie itself. Unfortunately for the movie this comparison is inaccurate, the story of 28 Panfilov's is a fabrication of a newspaper - Krasnaya Zvezda. Link to the wiki page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panfilov%27s_Twenty- Eight_Guardsmen
Now about the movie. The movie is rather simple war flick, nothing special. The solders are fighting an advancing Nazi tank division and bravely die to stop it. The characters are not well developed since we do not have enough background history to get attached to any of them, there is plenty of characters to keep track of. The enemy is shown as technology advanced and faceless that just keeps on going.
Over all the movie will be and is judge on historical levels and fails short on that.
Now about the movie. The movie is rather simple war flick, nothing special. The solders are fighting an advancing Nazi tank division and bravely die to stop it. The characters are not well developed since we do not have enough background history to get attached to any of them, there is plenty of characters to keep track of. The enemy is shown as technology advanced and faceless that just keeps on going.
Over all the movie will be and is judge on historical levels and fails short on that.